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Discussion on: idle thought on my declining participation in dev communities

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Ben Sinclair

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Oh, definitely. I still like these communities, but my comfort level has gone up a lot since working from home.

I'm also aware (worried?) that as with most developer communities, the content has gone from a bit of everything to the extremes of clickbait/regurgitated listicles on one end to meta conversations about how we can improve the clickbait/regurgitated listicles on the other. It's not as interesting to drop in and read a few posts from my feed any more.

Now that connect is being retired, I'm kind of hoping we settle on an external but at least semi-official chat service like IRC to fill the gap.